You should check this page after each Computer Class to see if there is any homework due before the next class. You are responsible for the homework whether you were in class or not. There will be no extra credit to rescue those who choose to ignore homework assignments. Not doing the homework results in a zero for the homework assignment. If you have questions or problems on how to do something or if you have lost your ID and password information, please contact me via email at stmcomputers@gmail.com . Please let me know in class before you leave if you know will not have computer access at home to work on the project. I will be contacting parents to verify computer related problems! If you do have computer related problems at home then you must arrange with me to come in before school (from 8am-8:30am) and/or during Nutrition and/or after school on days that I am able to stay late.
8th Grade has only 2 classes left this year and if they do not complete their work they will not be included in what will be presented at the Graduation breakfast & their grades will likely be very low.
Finish your Portrait Poem & Script - if this is not shared with me at computers@stmartinsschool.org, it is not done!! There is still one student that has not shared their script & their grade is being affected and at this point since they have been told to do it for 4 classes their behavior grade is also being affected. If you do not know how to share a document, email me at stmcomputers@gmail.com and ask!! Anyone who has not completed this by class on Tuesday will be required to stay after school on Tuesday to finish it!
Finish your Music on MyBytes & publish it -Hints on using MyBytes. If you have not published your song on MyBytes, your music is not done!! Anyone who has not completed this by class on Tuesday will be required to stay after school on Tuesday to finish it!
Finish altering your picture using the instructions/websites on the End of Year Project page and email the finished picture to me at stmcomputers@gmail.comAnyone who has not completed this by class on Tuesday will be required to stay after school on Tuesday to finish their collage!
If you have any questions about how to do something or where something is or how to login, etc. , email me at stmcomputers@gmail.com & ask - do not come in on Tuesday and tell me you didn't know how to do something!
HOMEWORK DUE 6/3:
Once again homework is being ignored and with only 3 classes left there's not much time to make up any work and your grade is being affected for each time you have not completed the required homework. Before your next class on 6/3, YOU MUST:
Share your Script document with me at computers@stmartinsschool.org - only one student still needs to do this and that student has been told to do this in the last 3 classes; your grade is now being affected!!
Finish your Portrait Poem & Script - since only two students said their scripts were done (and probably two that were absent) most of you need to do this!!
Finish your Music on MyBytes - Hints on using MyBytes. If you have not published your song on MyBytes, your music is not done!!
Email a picture to me at stmcomputers@gmail.com if you are not going to use one of the graduation pictures.
Optional:
If you wish, you may edit your photo at home (your computer is most likely faster than the ones in the lab) and email the completed photo to me at stmcomputers@gmail.com - if you want to use PhotoFiltre, it is a free program that can be downloaded at http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
HOMEWORK DUE 5/31:
Your Portrait Poem, Script & Music in MyBytes MUST be completed before class on 5/31!!! Next week, you will be creating your photo collage and recording your script & adding your music. There will be not more time to work on your script or music during class.
SAVING IN MYBYTES: When you save your song, do NOT put any special characters in the name or it won't save! Hints on using MyBytes.
HOMEWORK DUE 5/27:
If your Portrait Poem and/or your script is not done, you must complete these at home before class! If you are finished with your script and your Portrait Poem, you can optionally create music in MyBytes. It's easy to take a lot of time playing with MyBytes so it might be a good idea to do that at home so you can get your song actually finished in class.
SAVING IN MYBYTES: When you save your song, do NOT put any special characters in the name or it won't save! Your music needs to be done by the end of class on Friday, May 27th and downloaded to your computer at school so you might want to start working on it at home before then.
HOMEWORK DUE 5/15 by 10pm:
You must have your survey questions complete on your Google Doc by this time and if possible have your survey completed. There are 25 points possible for your surveys if you have complete, serious, appropriate questions and answers for your survey in your Google Doc and you have a completed survey created! If your survey is not complete, then only 22 points maximum are possible for this assignment depending on the questions you have generated for your survey. These need to be treated seriously! If your questions have one obviously correct answer and jokes for the other answers, you will not be given credit for the questions! Points are deducted for incorrect grammar and spelling and for questions that do not apply to your topic or that do not have appropriate answers.
Yes, these must be completed by Sunday night so that I can finish up the surveys if needed. The first presentations are on Monday and you will be starting something new during Computer Class on Tuesday so there is NO MORE TIME to work on them in class.
HOMEWORK DUE 5/3:
Your Action Projects including your Posters (if applicable), Google Review Site (if applicable) and Presentation must be completed by May 3rd. You will be presenting to your own class on May 6th and to another class the week of May 9th. If you are not done by April 15th during class this means you will need to work on your project over the Spring Break. Your class on May 3rd will be used to finalize your presentation and practice with the other members of your group; if you come to class after the break without your work completed, it will most likely not be possible to catch up and be ready to present on May 6th. If you come to class without having done any work over the Spring Break, you will have another zero for homework and a real potential for a receiving failing grade on the Action Project. Below is a grading breakdown for this project - you need to make sure that the items listed are complete. Even though this is a group project, each person will be graded individually. This means that the group may have a wonderful presentation but if you, individually, did not contribute to the Google Doc, did not do any homework, did not make a poster or add to the review site and do not participate in the presentation, your grade will reflect that!
Your Google Doc (50 points)
Participant names included
Project has a title
Grade Level, Educating About, Resources Needed & Group Member assignments are all filled in
Project details are included: Posters that will be made or sites that will be reviewed, Presentation details - what will be included, pictures you will use, etc.
Homework Assigned (30 points total - 20 are done but the homework due 5/3 is worth 10 points)
Do homework, you get 10 points. Don't do homework, you get 0 points.
Posters or Review Site (25 points)
Review Site: The front page has been updated correctly for the project & each group member has added their review(s). Make sure you use proper grammar and spelling and remember that everyone on the Internet can see this site so use appropriate, descriptive and detailed language.
You need to log in to Google Docs and click on Sites to find your Review Site
Click Edit Page to edit the front page or click on your review page & then Edit Page to change anything on your page
To add a review page for a site, click on Create Page and select the Site Review template and enter the name of your site as the Name of the page. This will create a page you can modify:
You will need a screen capture of the site your reviewed. Go to the site and then hold down the ALT key and press the Print Screen Key (on the upper right of the keyboard). Then go to the Paint program (under Accessories) and paste what you just copied. Use the rectangle select tool to crop out your browser tools, etc. - you just want what the front page of your site looks like. Then use Image/Resize and set both Width & Height to 50%. Save the Image as SiteName.jpg replacing site name with the actual site name. You should upload this image and replace the image on your page. Add the Site Name under the image & link from the Site Name & the image to your site.
Make sure to add a description of what the site "promised" it would be and then fill in the review portion of the site. Just delete the stars you don't need and replace the instruction text with your review.
Posters: Posters need to be visual, text must be spelled correctly, be appropriate and be large enough to be read from a distance (this means if you are doing a paper sized poster there shouldn't be much text on it!). Posters should help students recall the information you will be presenting. Create a poster on Poster Board, use PowerPoint, Word or Publisher to create a poster or use Big Huge Labs: Motivator or Movie Poster
Find photos for posters on Flickr - Turn on Safe Search and Creative Commons Find content to modify, adapt or build upon. Make sure to include credits - save these somewhere because you will need them for your presentations!
Presentation (75 points)
Presentations should be visual with minimal text on each slide. If you are doing a Top 10 list, you can have all 10 on a slide however you should present each individually also - so you could have 1 slide with Top 10 followed by 10 slides detailing each point individually and then perhaps the Top 10 again.
Don't forget the credits on your images; include the photographer's real name (if there is one) and the URL of the image. Find photos on Flickr - Turn on Safe Search and Creative Commons Find content to modify, adapt or build upon. The Flickr CC Search Toy is a fun tool to use to search for photos on Flickr because you can click on the image and then tell it to stamp the medium or large image and it will automatically create a credit for you on the image. If you use this tool, make sure to right-click and copy the URL on the "See on Flickr" link too & save that into your notes and do not use photos that have a NoDerivs license.
NOTE: If you are using screen shots or logos for a site, credits are not necessary if you have "captured" these yourself. You will be using these under a "fair use" policy for editorial purposes.
All members of the group must contribute to the presentation & must be involved in actually giving the presentation. You will need presentation skills in High School and beyond so let's practice them now!
Presentations should emphasize the positives and not the negatives:
Group 1: Jenna, Jonathan, Neftali & Victoria
Educate about how to help yourself & your friends if you or they are victims of a cyberbully. Educate about what cyberbullying IS so that someone doesn't become one when they think they're just joking around. It's really easy with this subject to dwell on the extreme cases (like Ryan) but there are many more that aren't that extreme but can cause people to lose friends, have problems at school, etc. Try to concentrate on the consequences that are more likely to happen rather than just the extreme cases. It is okay to mention the extreme consequences but that shouldn't be the main focus of your presentation.
Group 2: Alyssa, Andrea, Emily & Tria
Make sure you include why tweens want to be on Facebook and why tweens shouldn't be on Facebook (or how it should be an earned privilege much like a driver's license is) along with your site reviews. Use screen shots of your sites as your visuals for your slides on your site reviews. See screen capture instructions above under Review Site. Make sure to only include those sites you WOULD recommend in your presentation; remember sites do not have to be educational but they MUST be safe in order for you to recommend them and they should be fun.
Group 3: James, Jesse, Katrina & Margie
Your job is to teach others how to set up a Facebook account to be as safe as possible. Do not over emphasize things like stalkers & kidnappers, etc. in your presentation; it is okay to mention this potential as one consequence if you are unsafe and friend people you don't know or deliberately seek out strangers. However, dangers like this are not the most typical problem that people have. For most people safety is not about being stalked or threatened, it is about posting inappropriate things that can get them in trouble at school or with their parents, may lose them jobs in the future, may lose them admission to college or a scholarship at a college, etc. You do need to educate on why they should be safe and how they can be safe.
Another thing that will be graded this quarter (100 points) and that we most likely not have much time to work on anymore in class is the Digiteen Wiki. This was actually from last quarter but you continued working on it at the beginning of this quarter. If you have not added at least 100 words (or at least 50 words and done major editing on the page) to your Area of Awareness page on the Digiteen Wiki, you should:
Use your Diigo links to add information (you need to add 100 words or more) to your Area of Awareness page in appropriate sections. Make sure you link appropriately to your sources! If you do not have any links then you can not get full credit.
Add to the summary at the top if things are in the other sections and are not in the summary
Fix any errors
Consolidate any repeated items
Add contextual links that are needed on items already on the page
Reword things that appear to be plagiarized
Fix things that are confusing
Move things that may be in the wrong place
HOMEWORK DUE 4/15:
Your completed Action Projects including your Posters (if applicable), Google Review Site (if applicable) and Presentation must be completed by May 3rd. You will be presenting to your own class on May 6th and to another class the week of May 9th. If you are not done by April 15th during class this means you will need to work on your project over the Spring Break; your class on May 3rd should be used to finalize your presentation and practice with the other members of your group. Group 1: Jenna, Jonathan, Neftali & Victoria
Read and complete the homework for April 12th since that was not done before.
If you have a finished poster, you can take a picture of it and email it to me at stmcomputers@gmail.com - this is optional but will need to be done on Friday if not before!
If at all possible, bring completed posters to class on Friday or plan to finish them during class. Someone in your group will need to be working on your presentation on Friday, if not before!
Your presentation should be in the form of a Glog - this can be created at any time by one of you (your log in is your normal ID & password OR email me at stmcomputers@gmail.com for a generic login for the group). When the Glog is created, the link should be shared in your Google Doc. If you would like to divide up the work on the Glog (remember only one person can work on it at a time but you could have multiple people work on it at different times), please set this up under the generic login (email me for login details). You absolutely need to work on this on Friday so you can ask questions if you run into difficulties.
Group 2: Alyssa, Andrea, Emily & Tria
Read and complete the homework for April 12th since that was not done before.
Visit your sites at home and add your reviews to your Google Site.
To get to your site, log in to Google Docs and click on Sites at the top of the screen and then click on Facebook Alternatives for Tweens.
Add a page for each site you review:
Click on the Create Page button
Select the Site Review template.
The name of your page should be the name of the site you are reviewing (e.g., Club Penguin, Woogi World, etc.) and then click on Create Page. Leave anything else on the create page the way it is already set.
Edit the page replacing the image with a screen shot of the site you reviewed. The image and the name of the site below the image should link to the site you reviewed.
Replace the text on the page with your review information. Be specific and remember you are reviewing these for use by 8-12 year olds. Do not say things like "this site sucked" - use more professional language and specifics.
Add your review information to your Google Presentation. Remember, presentations should be mostly visual. you should not be reading your slides to your audience:
You will need to use a screen capture of the site for your presentation and details about your recommendation.
Your presentation needs to have at least 3 recommended sites. There will not be time for you to do a lot of your playing on the sites at school - you have to do this at home! Your time at school should be spent creating your site and adding other information to your presentation.
Group 3: James, Jesse, Katrina & Margie
Read and complete the homework for April 12th since that was not done before.
Find images on Flickr (Turn on Safe Search and Creative Commons Find content to modify, adapt or build upon) to be used in your presentation and/or on your posters. Save the location to Diigo and/or add them to your Google Presentation
Remember, presentations should be mostly visual. you should not be reading your slides to your audience! Your presentation should include:
A title slide
Why you would want to use the safety settings in Facebook
Mistakes people make - can you find real world examples?
Consequences on not setting privacy settings - any real world examples?
Top Facebook Safety Tips - screen shots of Profile Settings could be good to use on these pages while you explain what they mean.
Work on posters for classrooms and the Computer Lab with Top Facebook Safety Tips - Each team member must create a poster! If you have a completed poster, ask me about taking a picture of it and getting the picture ready to go on your Glog. Posters could be created in Word, Publisher, PowerPoint, using BigHugeLabs or created on Poster Board by hand. If you did not bring Poster Board to class, you will need to use another option for creating your poster or complete this at home! If you are using BigHugeLabs, you can find pictures on Flickr - Turn on Safe Search and Creative Commons Find content to modify, adapt or build upon
HOMEWORK DUE 4/12:
All information for your project must be complete on your Google Doc.This Action Project is a big portion of your grade this quarter and since it is being completed using online tools, there is no excuse for not participating in the project even if you have to leave early and are not in class. In addition to the required homework, it would be a good idea to have made a start on your posters, web sites, presentations, etc. also. If you are creating regular posters and will make them at school, you must bring in poster board on Tuesday 4/12! Group 1: Jenna, Jonathan, Neftali & Victoria
Please add details about your presentation to your Google Doc:
Definition of Cyberbullying - This could be a video you find online or a web site that has a good definition or just a definition that your group comes up with.
Ways to deal with Cyberbullying - Remember, that most people are not cyberbullies themselves but may have to deal with a cyberbully or help a friend deal with one. Remember also that cyberbullying is not just restricted to web sites - it often happens on cellphones too or when playing games like Xbox Live online with others.
Please add more details about your posters - remember each member of the group must create a poster so I should see information about 4 posters on your Google Doc. Since there are four members of the group and three classrooms you are aiming your project at, one of the posters will be in the computer lab and all four will be added to our screen savers in the Computer Lab.
Group 2: Alyssa, Andrea, Emily & Tria
Please add information about your presentation to your Google Doc. What form will your presentation take? Write down what slides will be included. Remember, in addition to your site reviews, your presentation should include why tweens (8-12 year olds) should not be on Facebook and this should not emphasize scare tactics. I realize you don't know the reviews of your sites yet so you can't say which sites specifically will be in your presentation but you need to decide the format and what will be included for each site you do share in your presentation.
Emily, you do not have any information about the site(s) you will be reviewing. Please add this.
You need to be visiting your sites at home. There will not be time in class to visit the sites and create the reviews and create your presentation.
Group 3: James, Jesse, Katrina & Margie
There is very little good information on your Google Doc. Remember the emphasize is not to be on stalkers and "creepers" and kidnappers. Studies show that while that type of thing does exist, it is very limited unless people seek out things like that. If people follow basic safety rules then that type of thing is not an issue. Your job is to educate on how to be safe and how not to cause yourself problems with school or your parents or future jobs and how to help friends to be safe. This is not about cliches and being silly - treat this seriously!
Please add information about your presentation.What slides will be included? What visually will be on the slides? What will people say about each slide? Who is going to do what on your presentation?
What specifically is going on your posters? This needs to be detailed on your Google Doc - words & possible images (or the type of images). Each of you needs to create a poster (or a mini-poster which is paper-sized or legal paper-sized) - two of the posters may go in each classroom or one will go in each classroom and two in the Computer Lab.
8th Grade Homework:
You should check this page after each Computer Class to see if there is any homework due before the next class. You are responsible for the homework whether you were in class or not. There will be no extra credit to rescue those who choose to ignore homework assignments. Not doing the homework results in a zero for the homework assignment. If you have questions or problems on how to do something or if you have lost your ID and password information, please contact me via email at stmcomputers@gmail.com . Please let me know in class before you leave if you know will not have computer access at home to work on the project. I will be contacting parents to verify computer related problems! If you do have computer related problems at home then you must arrange with me to come in before school (from 8am-8:30am) and/or during Nutrition and/or after school on days that I am able to stay late.HOMEWORK DUE 6/7: Instructions can be found on the End of Year Project page
8th Grade has only 2 classes left this year and if they do not complete their work they will not be included in what will be presented at the Graduation breakfast & their grades will likely be very low.- Finish your Portrait Poem & Script - if this is not shared with me at computers@stmartinsschool.org, it is not done!! There is still one student that has not shared their script & their grade is being affected and at this point since they have been told to do it for 4 classes their behavior grade is also being affected. If you do not know how to share a document, email me at stmcomputers@gmail.com and ask!! Anyone who has not completed this by class on Tuesday will be required to stay after school on Tuesday to finish it!
- Finish your Music on MyBytes & publish it -Hints on using MyBytes. If you have not published your song on MyBytes, your music is not done!! Anyone who has not completed this by class on Tuesday will be required to stay after school on Tuesday to finish it!
- Finish altering your picture using the instructions/websites on the End of Year Project page and email the finished picture to me at stmcomputers@gmail.com Anyone who has not completed this by class on Tuesday will be required to stay after school on Tuesday to finish their collage!
If you have any questions about how to do something or where something is or how to login, etc. , email me at stmcomputers@gmail.com & ask - do not come in on Tuesday and tell me you didn't know how to do something!HOMEWORK DUE 6/3:
Once again homework is being ignored and with only 3 classes left there's not much time to make up any work and your grade is being affected for each time you have not completed the required homework. Before your next class on 6/3, YOU MUST:- Share your Script document with me at computers@stmartinsschool.org - only one student still needs to do this and that student has been told to do this in the last 3 classes; your grade is now being affected!!
- Finish your Portrait Poem & Script - since only two students said their scripts were done (and probably two that were absent) most of you need to do this!!
- Finish your Music on MyBytes - Hints on using MyBytes. If you have not published your song on MyBytes, your music is not done!!
- Email a picture to me at stmcomputers@gmail.com if you are not going to use one of the graduation pictures.
Optional:HOMEWORK DUE 5/31:
Your Portrait Poem, Script & Music in MyBytes MUST be completed before class on 5/31!!! Next week, you will be creating your photo collage and recording your script & adding your music. There will be not more time to work on your script or music during class.SAVING IN MYBYTES: When you save your song, do NOT put any special characters in the name or it won't save! Hints on using MyBytes.
HOMEWORK DUE 5/27:
If your Portrait Poem and/or your script is not done, you must complete these at home before class! If you are finished with your script and your Portrait Poem, you can optionally create music in MyBytes. It's easy to take a lot of time playing with MyBytes so it might be a good idea to do that at home so you can get your song actually finished in class.SAVING IN MYBYTES: When you save your song, do NOT put any special characters in the name or it won't save! Your music needs to be done by the end of class on Friday, May 27th and downloaded to your computer at school so you might want to start working on it at home before then.
HOMEWORK DUE 5/15 by 10pm:
You must have your survey questions complete on your Google Doc by this time and if possible have your survey completed. There are 25 points possible for your surveys if you have complete, serious, appropriate questions and answers for your survey in your Google Doc and you have a completed survey created! If your survey is not complete, then only 22 points maximum are possible for this assignment depending on the questions you have generated for your survey. These need to be treated seriously! If your questions have one obviously correct answer and jokes for the other answers, you will not be given credit for the questions! Points are deducted for incorrect grammar and spelling and for questions that do not apply to your topic or that do not have appropriate answers.Yes, these must be completed by Sunday night so that I can finish up the surveys if needed. The first presentations are on Monday and you will be starting something new during Computer Class on Tuesday so there is NO MORE TIME to work on them in class.
HOMEWORK DUE 5/3:
Your Action Projects including your Posters (if applicable), Google Review Site (if applicable) and Presentation must be completed by May 3rd. You will be presenting to your own class on May 6th and to another class the week of May 9th. If you are not done by April 15th during class this means you will need to work on your project over the Spring Break. Your class on May 3rd will be used to finalize your presentation and practice with the other members of your group; if you come to class after the break without your work completed, it will most likely not be possible to catch up and be ready to present on May 6th. If you come to class without having done any work over the Spring Break, you will have another zero for homework and a real potential for a receiving failing grade on the Action Project. Below is a grading breakdown for this project - you need to make sure that the items listed are complete. Even though this is a group project, each person will be graded individually. This means that the group may have a wonderful presentation but if you, individually, did not contribute to the Google Doc, did not do any homework, did not make a poster or add to the review site and do not participate in the presentation, your grade will reflect that!NOTE: If you are using screen shots or logos for a site, credits are not necessary if you have "captured" these yourself. You will be using these under a "fair use" policy for editorial purposes.
Educate about how to help yourself & your friends if you or they are victims of a cyberbully. Educate about what cyberbullying IS so that someone doesn't become one when they think they're just joking around. It's really easy with this subject to dwell on the extreme cases (like Ryan) but there are many more that aren't that extreme but can cause people to lose friends, have problems at school, etc. Try to concentrate on the consequences that are more likely to happen rather than just the extreme cases. It is okay to mention the extreme consequences but that shouldn't be the main focus of your presentation.
Make sure you include why tweens want to be on Facebook and why tweens shouldn't be on Facebook (or how it should be an earned privilege much like a driver's license is) along with your site reviews. Use screen shots of your sites as your visuals for your slides on your site reviews. See screen capture instructions above under Review Site. Make sure to only include those sites you WOULD recommend in your presentation; remember sites do not have to be educational but they MUST be safe in order for you to recommend them and they should be fun.
Your job is to teach others how to set up a Facebook account to be as safe as possible. Do not over emphasize things like stalkers & kidnappers, etc. in your presentation; it is okay to mention this potential as one consequence if you are unsafe and friend people you don't know or deliberately seek out strangers. However, dangers like this are not the most typical problem that people have. For most people safety is not about being stalked or threatened, it is about posting inappropriate things that can get them in trouble at school or with their parents, may lose them jobs in the future, may lose them admission to college or a scholarship at a college, etc. You do need to educate on why they should be safe and how they can be safe.
Another thing that will be graded this quarter (100 points) and that we most likely not have much time to work on anymore in class is the Digiteen Wiki. This was actually from last quarter but you continued working on it at the beginning of this quarter. If you have not added at least 100 words (or at least 50 words and done major editing on the page) to your Area of Awareness page on the Digiteen Wiki, you should:
HOMEWORK DUE 4/15:
Your completed Action Projects including your Posters (if applicable), Google Review Site (if applicable) and Presentation must be completed by May 3rd. You will be presenting to your own class on May 6th and to another class the week of May 9th. If you are not done by April 15th during class this means you will need to work on your project over the Spring Break; your class on May 3rd should be used to finalize your presentation and practice with the other members of your group.Group 1: Jenna, Jonathan, Neftali & Victoria
- Read and complete the homework for April 12th since that was not done before.
- If you have a finished poster, you can take a picture of it and email it to me at stmcomputers@gmail.com - this is optional but will need to be done on Friday if not before!
- If at all possible, bring completed posters to class on Friday or plan to finish them during class. Someone in your group will need to be working on your presentation on Friday, if not before!
- Your presentation should be in the form of a Glog - this can be created at any time by one of you (your log in is your normal ID & password OR email me at stmcomputers@gmail.com for a generic login for the group). When the Glog is created, the link should be shared in your Google Doc. If you would like to divide up the work on the Glog (remember only one person can work on it at a time but you could have multiple people work on it at different times), please set this up under the generic login (email me for login details). You absolutely need to work on this on Friday so you can ask questions if you run into difficulties.
Group 2: Alyssa, Andrea, Emily & Tria- Read and complete the homework for April 12th since that was not done before.
- Visit your sites at home and add your reviews to your Google Site.
- To get to your site, log in to Google Docs and click on Sites at the top of the screen and then click on Facebook Alternatives for Tweens.
- Add a page for each site you review:
- Click on the Create Page button
- Select the Site Review template.
- The name of your page should be the name of the site you are reviewing (e.g., Club Penguin, Woogi World, etc.) and then click on Create Page. Leave anything else on the create page the way it is already set.
- Edit the page replacing the image with a screen shot of the site you reviewed. The image and the name of the site below the image should link to the site you reviewed.
- Replace the text on the page with your review information. Be specific and remember you are reviewing these for use by 8-12 year olds. Do not say things like "this site sucked" - use more professional language and specifics.
- Add your review information to your Google Presentation. Remember, presentations should be mostly visual. you should not be reading your slides to your audience:
- You will need to use a screen capture of the site for your presentation and details about your recommendation.
- Your presentation needs to have at least 3 recommended sites. There will not be time for you to do a lot of your playing on the sites at school - you have to do this at home! Your time at school should be spent creating your site and adding other information to your presentation.
Group 3: James, Jesse, Katrina & MargieHOMEWORK DUE 4/12:
All information for your project must be complete on your Google Doc. This Action Project is a big portion of your grade this quarter and since it is being completed using online tools, there is no excuse for not participating in the project even if you have to leave early and are not in class. In addition to the required homework, it would be a good idea to have made a start on your posters, web sites, presentations, etc. also. If you are creating regular posters and will make them at school, you must bring in poster board on Tuesday 4/12!Group 1: Jenna, Jonathan, Neftali & Victoria
- Please add details about your presentation to your Google Doc:
- Definition of Cyberbullying - This could be a video you find online or a web site that has a good definition or just a definition that your group comes up with.
- Ways to deal with Cyberbullying - Remember, that most people are not cyberbullies themselves but may have to deal with a cyberbully or help a friend deal with one. Remember also that cyberbullying is not just restricted to web sites - it often happens on cellphones too or when playing games like Xbox Live online with others.
- Please add more details about your posters - remember each member of the group must create a poster so I should see information about 4 posters on your Google Doc. Since there are four members of the group and three classrooms you are aiming your project at, one of the posters will be in the computer lab and all four will be added to our screen savers in the Computer Lab.
Group 2: Alyssa, Andrea, Emily & Tria- Please add information about your presentation to your Google Doc. What form will your presentation take? Write down what slides will be included. Remember, in addition to your site reviews, your presentation should include why tweens (8-12 year olds) should not be on Facebook and this should not emphasize scare tactics. I realize you don't know the reviews of your sites yet so you can't say which sites specifically will be in your presentation but you need to decide the format and what will be included for each site you do share in your presentation.
- Emily, you do not have any information about the site(s) you will be reviewing. Please add this.
- You need to be visiting your sites at home. There will not be time in class to visit the sites and create the reviews and create your presentation.
Group 3: James, Jesse, Katrina & Margie